Trump asserted that the US had “already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability,” while conceding in the same breath that Tehran could still “send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile” along the waterway. He pledged that in the meantime, the US would be “bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water,” promising to get the strait “OPEN, SAFE, and FREE.” A question for the intellectually deficient dingbat. If Iran's armed forces are 100% decapitated, why is there an ongoing conflict and why is the Strait still closed? Huh? In response, Alireza Tangsiri, the navy chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said, “The Strait of Hormuz has not yet been militarily closed and is merely under control.” In a post on X, he hit back against Trump’s comments, saying, “Americans falsely claimed the destruction of Iran’s navy. Then they falsely claimed the escorting of oil tankers. Now they’re even asking others for backup forces.” Andreas Krieg, a Middle East security expert at King’s College London’s School of Security Studies, told Al Jazeera that Trump’s call for a coalition appeared to mask the absence of a broader plan to address the strait’s closure. “It doesn’t seem like they had a plan for the Strait of Hormuz to be closed, and it seems like a desperate move in an information campaign to calm markets and that something magical will happen to open the straits short of actually engaging with the Iranian regime,” he said. Krieg said there was no quick military solution to reopening the strait, as all Iran needed to do was strike occasionally to keep insurers away. Sending naval vessels without a diplomatic agreement, he said, would only expose “very, very expensive military vessels to very cheap but potentially very effective projectiles”. https://share.google/vNeEhcI1M8S9SSxM0
